I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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